Improved composition for soap



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

O. J. EAMES AND O. A. SEELY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR SOAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 65,] 86, dated May 28, 1867.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES J. EAMES and CHARLES A. SEELY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Composition for Soap; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of our invention consists in adding to the ingredients which are ordinarily found in soap a substance or substances whichwill confer upon the finished soap disinfecting and deodorizing properties. The substances which we have found most suitable for our purpose are carbolic acid, cresylic acid, and creosote.

These substances are well known for their powerful disinfecting virtues, and we have found that when added to soap their usefulness is greatly increased.

To enable others to make and use our in vention, we proceed to describe it in detail.

By soap we mean any of the compounds of alkali and oil or fat which are known or used in the arts under that name. Our invent-ion is applicable to any kind of ordinary soap.

We employ one of the following ways of inoorporating one or more of the above-named disinfectants with the soap: First, the disinfectant is dissolved in the alkaline solu'ion before the addition of the fat; second, the disinfectant is dissolved in the melted fat; or, third, the disinfectant is mixed in with the finished soap by means of crutching, or other mechanical device.

From the nature of the case we do not limit ourselves to any specific proportions of the disinfectant to the soap. For a toilet-soap, five to fifty drops to the pound of soap will be found to give satisfactory effects, while for soap to be used on infected clothing as much as ten per cent. of disinfectant may be used in the soap.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A disinfectant soap, compounded of the ingredients as above set forth.

CHARLES J. EAMES. CHARLES A. SEELY. WVitnesses:

J OHN JOHNSON, JOHN P. COLBY. 

